On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 04:00:55PM -0700, fei.y...@intel.com wrote:
> From: Fei Yang <fei.y...@intel.com>
>
> The design is to keep Buffer Object's caching policy immutable through
> out its life cycle. This patch ends the support for set caching ioctl
> from MTL onward. While doing that we also set BO's to be 1-way coherent
> at creation time because GPU is no longer automatically snooping CPU
> cache. For UMD's need to fine tune the caching policy for BO's, a follow
> up patch will extend the GEM_CREATE uAPI to allow UMD's specify caching
> mode at BO creation time.
Nitpick: I don't think "UMD" is a term that anyone really uses outside
of Intel. It's probably better to just say "userspace" instead of
"UMD" since that's more accurate anyway.
Matt
>
> Signed-off-by: Fei Yang <fei.y...@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.sh...@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.ha...@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c | 3 +++
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
> index d2d5a24301b2..bb3575b1479f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
> @@ -337,6 +337,9 @@ int i915_gem_set_caching_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev,
> void *data,
> if (IS_DGFX(i915))
> return -ENODEV;
>
> + if (GRAPHICS_VER_FULL(i915) >= IP_VER(12, 70))
> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +
> switch (args->caching) {
> case I915_CACHING_NONE:
> level = I915_CACHE_NONE;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
> index 37d1efcd3ca6..cad4a6017f4b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
> @@ -601,7 +601,14 @@ static int shmem_object_init(struct intel_memory_region
> *mem,
> obj->write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> obj->read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
>
> - if (HAS_LLC(i915))
> + /*
> + * MTL doesn't snoop CPU cache by default for GPU access (namely
> + * 1-way coherency). However some UMD's are currently depending on
> + * that. Make 1-way coherent the default setting for MTL. A follow
> + * up patch will extend the GEM_CREATE uAPI to allow UMD's specify
> + * caching mode at BO creation time
> + */
> + if (HAS_LLC(i915) || (GRAPHICS_VER_FULL(i915) >= IP_VER(12, 70)))
> /* On some devices, we can have the GPU use the LLC (the CPU
> * cache) for about a 10% performance improvement
> * compared to uncached. Graphics requests other than
> --
> 2.25.1
>
--
Matt Roper
Graphics Software Engineer
Linux GPU Platform Enablement
Intel Corporation
